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“The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.”
-- Ayn Rand

#Inspirational #Wisdom #Men
“If a businessman makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences. If a bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences.”
-- Ayn Rand

#Mistake #Suffering #Businessman
“Government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.”
-- Ayn Rand

#Witty #Government #Hands
“Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.”
-- Ayn Rand

#Men #Rights #Use
“Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).”
-- Ayn Rand

#Freedom #Rights #Political
“Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours.”
-- Ayn Rand

#Inspirational #Life #Motivational
“A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.”
-- Ayn Rand

#Dance #Teamwork #Motivation
“America's abundance was created not by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes. They did not starve the people to pay for America's industrialization. They gave the people better jobs, higher wages, and cheaper goods with every new machine they invented, with every scientific discovery or technological advance- and thus the whole country was moving forward and profiting, not suffering, every step of the way.”
-- Ayn Rand

#Country #Jobs #Moving Forward
“America's founding Ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more - and nothing less.”
-- Ayn Rand

#Rights #America #Principles
“Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.”
-- Ayn Rand

#Inspirational #Men #Challenges
“Do not make the mistake of the ignorant who think that an individualist is a man who says: â€œIâ€™ll do as I please at everybody elseâ€™s expense.â€ An individualist is a man who recognizes the inalienable individual rights of manâ€”his own and those of others.”
-- Ayn Rand

#Mistake #Men #Thinking
“Manâ€”every manâ€”is an end in himself, not a means to the ends of others; he must live for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others to himself; he must work for his rational self-interest, with the achievement of his own happiness as the highest moral purpose of his life.”
-- Ayn Rand

#Inspirational #Mean #Sacrifice
“To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one's thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one's mind and to evict oneself from the realm of reality.”
-- Ayn Rand

#Reality #Thinking #Errors
“The great creators - the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors - stood alone against the men of their time. Every great new thought was opposed. Every great new invention was denounced. The first motor was considered foolish. The airplane was considered impossible... But the men of unborrowed vision went ahead. They fought, they suffered and they paid. But they won.”
-- Ayn Rand

#Airplane #Men #Artist
“So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?”
-- Ayn Rand

#Funny #Inspiring #Money
“What is greatness? I will answer: it is the capacity to live by the three fundamental values of John Galt: reason, purpose, self-esteem.”
-- Ayn Rand

#Self Esteem #Greatness #Three
“Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.”
-- Ayn Rand

#Racism #Form #Primitive
“Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism. It is the notion of ascribing moral, social or political significance to a manâ€™s genetic lineage-the notion that a manâ€™s intellectual and characterologic al traits are produced and transmitted by his internal body chemistry.”
-- Ayn Rand

#Men #Racism #Political
“America's abundance was not created by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes.”
-- Ayn Rand

#Sacrifice #Men #America
“The man without a purpose is a man who drifts at the mercy of random feelings or unidentified urges and is capable of any evil, because he is totally out of control of his own life. In order to be in control of your life, you have to have a purpose-a productive purpose.”
-- Ayn Rand

#Men #Order #Evil
“Americaâ€™s founding ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more-and nothing less. The rest-everything that America achieved, everything she became, everything 'noble and just,' and heroic, and great, and unprecedented in human history-was the logical consequence of fidelity to that one principle.”
-- Ayn Rand

#Rights #America #Principles
“Honor is self-esteem made visible in action.”
-- Ayn Rand

#Self Esteem #Honor #Action
“He had a big head and a face so ugly it became almost fascinating.”
-- Ayn Rand

#Inspirational #Sarcastic #Memorable
“If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater his effort the heavier the world bore down upon his shoulders - What would you tell him?" Iâ€¦don't know. Whatâ€¦could he do? What would you tell him?" To shrug.”
-- Ayn Rand

#Running #Blood #Effort
“To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.'”
-- Ayn Rand

#Love #Inspirational #Life
“The Founding Fathers were neither passive, death-worshipin g mystics nor mindless, power-seeking looters; as a political group they were a phenomenon unprecedented in history: they were thinkers who were also men of action.”
-- Ayn Rand

#Father #Men #Political
“Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday. In spite of its religious form (giving thanks to God for a good harvest), its essential, secular meaning is a celebration of successful production. It is a producersâ€™ holiday. The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production. Abundance is (or was and ought to be) Americaâ€™s pride-just as it is the pride of American parents that their children need never know starvation.”
-- Ayn Rand

#Religious #Children #Holiday
“Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.”
-- Ayn Rand

#Life #Running #Fake People
“The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.”
-- Ayn Rand

#Liberty #Today #Tomorrow
“Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.”
-- Ayn Rand

#Inspirational #Money #Powerful

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